Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative, as Minnesota's acting WPAdministrator...
...Ontario Provincial Government has never been seriously concerned over the other seven living Dionne young, but has kept the Quintuplets in separate, guarded quarters. Last month Papa Dionne demanded a general inquiry by the Ontario Government into the handling of the Quintuplets' affairs by strong-willed Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Judge J. A. Valin and Percy D. Wilson, his fellow members on the board of guardians. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn flatly turned down Papa Dionne's demand, allowed Dr. Dafoe to continue to exercise supreme authority over the Quintuplets' health, permitted the girls' education...
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...
Another University instructor newly appointed to Williams is Roy Lamson Jr., '29 instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, who has been named assistant professor in English. Dr. Lamson received his M.A. here in 1930 and his Ph. D. in 1936. Last summer he won a Charles Dexter scholarship for summer study in England...
...crooning Cowhand Gene Autry, top man in his calling and Hollywood's fanciest-chapped Western star, Newcomer Roy Rogers is more than a passing threat. Crooner Autry, picked three years ago from the radio and schooled in lyric foofaraw to start the singing cowboy school of Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn...